Posts
History, meet your match!
An exposition of the computer model calibration method originated in the field of oil reservoir engineering known as "history matching."
On answering the wrong question
Some examples of how statistical hypothesis testing sometimes answers different questions than we would like to ask.
What does elo measure?
A definition of elo rating. An analysis of a chess game of mine. An inaugural entry in an amateur chess diary, if you will.
Self-fulfilling prophecies and Big Data
A look at inequality as it's driven by algorithmic thinking. Some advertising data investigation. A discussion of the book "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil.